Archie Comics Teases Its Strangest, Most Exciting Reboot Ever

Archie Andrews is 1 of the oldest and astir enduring characters successful the comic publication world, and he's astir to acquisition his strangest reboot ever successful 2026. Today, Archie Comics revealed that they're partnering with Oni Press to wholly reimagine Archie and the Riverdale pack for a postmodern audience.

The 2 publishers volition collaborate adjacent twelvemonth connected a trio of caller ongoing monthly bid from immoderate of the astir unsocial voices successful the industry. The creators progressive see Ice Cream Man's W. Maxwell Prince, Casanova's Fábio Moon, and Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees' Patrick Horvath.

First up is the flagship Archie bid successful September 2026, which volition beryllium written by Prince and illustrated by Moon and Nick Cagnetti (Spirit of the Shadows). That bid volition beryllium followed successful October by Sabrina the Teenage Witch, written by Corinna Bechko (Green Lantern: Earth One) and illustrated by Kano (Gotham Central), and successful November by Archie successful Hell, written by Horvath and illustrated by Tyler Crook (Harrow County).

This caller enactment of comics serves arsenic a wholly caller commencement for the franchise, with the publishers drafting comparisons to DC's All-Star Superman. It's timed to coincide with the 85th day of Archie's debut successful 1941's Pep Comics #22.

"Mark your calendars: 2026 is going to beryllium a large milestone for 1 of the astir important brands successful comics, arsenic an immensely talented formed of creators comes unneurotic to simultaneously grant and reinvent Riverdale successful ways ne'er earlier attempted," Oni Press Publisher Hunter Gorinson tells IGN. "We've been moving down the scenes for galore months present to assemble an ambitious, multi-year program that volition spot Archie, Betty and Veronica, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and truthful galore much of these beloved comics icons measurement into hugely inventive caller bid that volition transmission Archie's chiseled storytelling powerfulness and joyful tone for this unsocial infinitesimal successful American history. Much similar the Barbie movie oregon All-Star Superman earlier them, these are stylish and bold introductions that volition archer america everything we request to cognize astir these characters – and a batch astir ourselves, too. We're aiming to marque these nary little than the astir compelling, surprising, and compulsively readable caller bid of the year, afloat stop."

Oni volition travel up these 3 titles successful 2027 with a caller enactment of middle-grade and YA graphic novels acceptable successful their ain continuity. More accusation astir those books volition beryllium revealed successful 2026. The steadfast volition besides reprint classical Archie Comics worldly successful a caller bid of commercialized paperbacks, hardcovers, and container sets.

"Oni Press, overmuch similar Archie, has seen large occurrence crossed a wide assortment of genres and styles. As is the Archie way, accessibility is key, and Oni excels successful uncovering caller ways to get comics into the hands of readers. We're excited to articulation forces to archer brand-new, ongoing Archie stories that are applicable successful 2026 and disposable to a larger comic-reading assemblage than ever before," says Archie Comics' Senior Director of Editorial Jamie Rotante. "Hunter, Sierra, and the full squad astatine Oni's quality to find the close voices that volition enactment existent to our iconic characters, portion besides bringing their ain unsocial styles and planting them firmly successful the modern era, and pairing them with artists that volition support our characters recognizable and fresh, has been remarkable. This volition genuinely beryllium a large caller epoch for Archie."

Look for much details connected this ambitious reboot aboriginal successful 2026.

In different news, cheque retired IGN's nominees for Best Comic Book Series oregon Original Graphic Novel of 2025, which includes Prince's Ice Cream Man.

Jesse is simply a mild-mannered unit writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intelligence thicket by following @jschedeen connected BlueSky.